Resume

Texas City, TX
riggsd@ev1.net

• Maintained the Product Delivery Access database, wrote and generated reports used to prepare and review Integrated Flight Loads, and participated in product reviews.
• Maintained team process manuals and desktop instructions.
• Using MS Excel and Visual Basic for Applications, coded a tool allowing manual reviews of product deliveries to be completed using electronic formats resulting in an estimated savings of over 900 man hours per year.
• Maintained web sites for Software Release Control Board and two work groups chartered under the board.

2004-Present - DAZ Productions
Bryce Coordinator

• Product Acquisition, Quality Assurance, and Guidelines
• Technical Editing and Document Quality Assurance

• Updated specification requirements in the Requirements & Traceability Management (RTM) tool.
• Extracted requirements from RTM and generated releasable specifications using Interleaf.
• Lead for all RTM Operators, responsible for training new RTM and Interleaf users and for generating user manuals.
• Book Manager for over 60 contract deliverable documents.

• Generated over 14,000 pages of Flight Software Simulations Requirements documents in Interleaf using output from a Teamwork/Rationale database.
• Created a team task tracking tool using Dbase IV.
• Produced user manual on preparing requirements documentation using the current Space Station standard.

• B.A., Applied Design and Visual Art - In work

2000-2004 - University of Phoenix Online, Phoenix, AZ

• B.S., Information Technology, Web Management Emphasis

1987-1989 - Southern Junior College, Huntsville, AL

• AS, Computer Information Systems

1983-1985 - Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC

• Speech Education Major, Dramatic Production Emphasis
• Biology Minor

Graphics: trueSpace, Cinema 4D, Painter 7, Paint Shop Pro 8, Bryce 5, Poser 5

Learning: Adobe Photoshop CS, GoLive CS, InDesign CS, Illustrator CS, ImageReady CS, Acrobat 6, ZBrush 2

• Review Team Lead for reviews at In Depth Arts
• Freelance Writer for Maxon
• Owner, CatBird Studios and Fignations of Imaginment
• Site Administrator, Texas Area Poser/Bryce User Group
• BryceTalk Moderator, DAZ Productions
• Staff Administrator and Moderator, 3D Commune
• Guildmaster, D'ni Guild of Artisans
• Volunteer, All Crafts 4 Charity